Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

Prevention of Accidents (Seafarers) Convention, 1970 (No. 134) - Guinea (Ratification: 1977)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation, which read as follows:

For many years, the Committee has been asking the Government to indicate the specific instruments that govern the prevention of occupational accidents of seafarers. The Government has so far indicated that appropriate regulatory texts were in preparation and would be reviewed with the technical assistance of the ILO to ensure their compliance with the provisions of the Convention. In its last report, the Government refers only to the provisions of the Labour Code and Merchant Navy Code, noting that they provide for the adoption of regulations on occupational safety and health. The Government also indicates that the authorities responsible for framing and supervising maritime regulations were also to draft a whole series of texts in this area. The Committee points out that Guinea ratified this Convention 28 years ago, in 1977. It also points out that the provisions of the national legislation are general in nature and do not always ensure that full effect is given to the provisions of the Convention. Consequently, the Committee once again expresses the hope that the Government will make every effort to ensure that texts giving full effect to the Convention are adopted in the very near future. It requests the Government to provide a copy of them as soon as they have been enacted.

Part IV of the report form. The Committee requests the Government to indicate whether the courts of law or any other tribunals have handed down decisions involving matters of principle pertaining to the application of the Convention and, if so, to provide copies of them with its next report.

Part V of the report form. The Committee also asks the Government to provide general information on the manner in which the Convention is applied, supplying extracts of reports by the inspection services, information on the number of workers covered by the legislation, and the number and nature of contraventions and of occupational accidents reported.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the very near future.